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JUAN FERNANDEZ NAVARRETE (1526-1579)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 282 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUAN

FERNANDEZ NAVARRETE (1526-1579)  , surnamed El Mudo (The Mute),
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Spanish painter of the
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Madrid school, was born at Logrono in 1526 . An illness in
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infancy deprived him of his hearing, but at a very early age he began to express his wants by sketching
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objects with a piece of
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charcoal . He received his first instructions in
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art from Fray Vicente de Santo Domingo, a Hieronymite monk at
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Estella, and afterwards he visited Naples, Rome, Florence and Milan . According to the ordinary account he was for a considerable time the pupil of Titian at Venice . In 1568 Philip II. summoned him to Madrid with the title of king's painter and a
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salary, and employed him to execute pictures for the
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Escorial . The most celebrated of the
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works he there produced are a "Nativity" (in which, as in the well-known
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work on the same subject by Correggio, the
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light emanates from the infant Saviour), a "
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Baptism of Christ" (now in the Madrid Picture Gallery), and " Abraham Receiving the Three Angels" (one of his last performances, dated 1576) .

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